Industrial fuel storage and self-blending tank and method

Details Industrial fuel storage and self-blending tank and method Industrial fuel storage and self-blending tank and method

1976-07-22

1977-07-19

Reeves, Robert B.

Dispensing

Processes of dispensing

222 3, 222189, B67B 724

Patent

active

040364020

ABSTRACT:
An industrial fuel storage and self-blending tank comprising a container having a top, a bottom and sides forming an enclosed chamber with an outlet adjacent the container top through which gases may exit the chamber. A dip tube is mounted within the container extending from adjacent the container bottom to the container outlet. The dip tube has a lower opening in a lower portion thereof and an upper opening in an upper portion thereof providing fluid communications between the interior and exterior of the tube. A wick is mounted within the dip tube overlaying the upper opening. A valve is provided to control the flow of gases through the container outlet.
A method is also disclosed for storing and self-blending a mixture of fuels of diverse specific gravities comprising the steps of partially filling a container with the fuels in their liquid state leaving a vapor space above the surface thereof, and sealing and storing the container thereby permitting the fuel of greater specific gravity to gravitate to the bottom of the container and the fuel of lesser specific gravity to rise thereabove to the surface. Liquid fuel of greaterspecific gravity is drawn from adjacent the bottom of the container upwardly into a wick disposed in the vapor space above the surface of the liquid fuel. Vapors of the fuel of lesser specific gravity evaporated from the surface of the liquid fuels into the vapor space are drawn out of the container through liquid fuel of greater specific gravity in the wick within the vapor space.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2279705 (1942-04-01), Dayhuff
patent: 3141317 (1964-07-01), Segawa
patent: 3970219 (1976-07-01), Spitzer et al.

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